President Donald Trump’s approval ratings have slipped slightly despite a well-received speech to Congress last week.
DailyMail.com’s Trump tracking poll, conducted with J.L. Partners, showed his approval rating now at 49 percent.
That is down five points from a 54 percent result a week earlier that showed the president more popular than ever.
Trump’s dip in approval ratings appears most prominent among young people.
Among voters 18-29, Trump’s approval rating is down 18 points from the previous poll.
The president has lost support among young men by 19 percent and young women by 17 percent.
The poll was conducted March 5-7 among a sample of 1,019 registered voters with a 3.4 percent margin of error.
Voters have become more concerned about the economy since Trump took office, according to the poll.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an Address to Congress in Washington DC
Forty-seven percent of voters believe the economy is getting worse, a nine point jump from the 38 percent of voters who thought the same before Trump was inaugurated.
Despite reservations about Trump’s efforts on the economy, however, voters appear willing to give him some time to improve it.
Seventy-two percent of voters say they need to see the economy improve by next year before they start blaming Trump. Of that 72 percent, 38 percent said they wanted to see the economy improve within six months.
But overall, a majority of voters are supportive of Trump’s first 50 days of his second term.
Fifty-two percent approve of Trump’s first 50 days in his second term, when undecided voters are removed.
US President Donald Trump waves as he makes his way to board Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews
U.S. President Donald Trump holds up an executive order
The main words associated with Trump’s first 50 days are ‘energetic,’ ‘interesting,’ ‘strong,’ ‘focused,’ ‘bad for the US on the world stage,’ ‘uncaring,’ and ‘divisive.’
Those who still favor Trump give him a positive rating for standing strong on banning men from girl’s sports, securing the border, and deporting illegal immigrants.
Securing the border remains Trump’s biggest achievement in his first 50 days, according to the poll.
Forty percent of voters believe that conditions on the southern border are improving, a strong 24 percent jump from the only 16 percent who felt that way about the border before Trump was president.
Voters who now view Trump more negatively complained about the clash with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, firing federal workers, and economic fears surrounding his decision to level tariffs against Canada and Mexico.
Polling respondents identified tariffs as the president’s biggest ‘screwup’ since taking office.
Voters are more hesitant about tariffs since Trump was first inaugurated, especially now that the president has leveled 25 percent tariffs on imported goods coming from Mexico and Canada.
Support for more tariffs on China has fallen from 28 percent to 13 percent, a sixteen point drop. The poll also shows that support for more tariffs on Mexico and Canada has dropped three points since the inauguration.
Trump suspended some of his tariffs on automobiles for 30 days to give the industry more time to adjust.
The president defended his tariffs while speaking to reporters on Air Force One on Sunday.
‘All I know is this, we’re going to take in hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs, and we’re going to become so rich you’re not going to know when to spend all that money,’ Trump said.
